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Hindu Editorial Topic 1 : "Time after time: on TRS victory"
- Time after time - again and again
- Victory - an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc
- Bank on something - to expect something or depend on something happening
- Sworn in - when someone is sworn in, they make a formal promise to be honest or loyal, either in a law court or when starting a new official job
- Calculated - planned or arranged in order to produce a particular effect
- Advancing - moving forwards or progressing
- Motive - a reason for doing something
- Alongside - next to, or together with
- Contender - someone who competes with other people to try to win something
- Gamble - to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success
- Paid off - if something you have done pays off, it is successful
- Handsomely - very well or to a great degree
- Tally - a record or count of a number of things
- Capitalise on something - to use a situation to your own advantage
- Carving out - to successfully create or get something, especially a work position, by working for it
- Runaway victory - runaway victory is surprisingly sudden or great
- Take the blame - if you take the blame for something, you say that you did it or that it is your fault
- Bifurcation - the fact that something is divided into two parts or the act of dividing something into two parts
- Concede - to admit, often unwillingly, that something is true
- Breakaway - an act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement
- Entrenched - established firmly so that it cannot be changed
- Attribute something to somebody - to think that someone or something has a particular quality or feature
- Alliance - an agreement to work with someone else to try to achieve the same thing
- Essentially - relating to the most important characteristics or ideas of something
- Bigger picture - the most important facts about a situation and the effects of that situation on other things
- Cynical - used to say that someone's feelings or emotions are used to your own advantage
- Principal - main
- Rival - a person, group, etc. competing with others for the same thing or in the same area
- Campaign - a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim
- Implication - an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly
- Wary - careful because you do not completely trust someone or something or are not certain about what you should do
- Facilitate - to make something possible or easier
- Equidistance - equally far or close
- Scenario - a description of possible actions or events in the future
- Terrain - an area of land, when considering its natural features
Hindu Editorial Topic 2 : "Theresa must"
- Survive - to continue to exist, especially in a difficult or dangerous situation
- Spell out - to explain something in a very clear way with details
- Conservative - not usually liking or trusting change, especially sudden change
- Stewardship - someone's stewardship of something is the way in which that person controls or organizes it
- Infighting - competition between people within a group, especially to improve their own position or to get agreement for their ideas
- Abate - to become less strong
- Assurance - a promise
- Controversial - causing disagreement or discussion
- Triggered - experiencing a strong emotional reaction of fear, shock, anger, or worry, especially because you are made to remember something bad that has happened in the past
- Tory - a member of the British Conservative Party
- Rebel - a person who is opposed to the political system in their country and tries to change it using force
- Embolden - to make someone brave
- Widespread - existing or happening in many places and/or among many people
- Europhile -a person who admires Europe or is in favour of participation in the European Union
- Eurosceptic - a person, especially a politician, who opposes closer connections between Britain and the European Union
- Resistance - the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something
- Momentum - the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started
- Apprehensive - feeling worried about something that you are going to do or that is going to happen
- Commons - one of the two parts of parliament in the UK and Canada, whose members are each elected to represent a particular official area of the country, or its members, or the place where it meets
- Defer - to delay something until a later time
- Backstop - something that can be used to solve problems after everything else has been tried
- Territorial - relating to territory (an area of land, that is considered as belonging to or connected with a particular country or person)
- Integrity - the quality of being whole and complete
- Insist - to say firmly or demand forcefully, especially when others disagree with or oppose what you say
- Negotiation - the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the discussions themselves
- Curb - a limit on something that is not wanted
- Flexible - able to change or be changed easily according to the situation
- Protestation - an act of saying something forcefully or complaining about something
- To the contrary - saying or showing the opposite
- Avert - to prevent something bad from happening
- Expiry - the situation in which something that lasts for a fixed length of time comes to an end or stops being in use
- Dilemma - a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do
- Pose - to cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
- Treaty - a written agreement between two or more countries, formally approved and signed by their leaders
- Concern - a feeling of worry about something, especially one that a lot of people have about an important issue
- Mandate - to give official permission for something to happen
- Referendum - a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or social question
- Imperative - extremely important or urgent
- Cease - to stop something
- Wishful thinking - the imagining or discussion of a very unlikely future event or situation as if it were possible and might one day happen
- Paraphrase - to repeat something written or spoken using different words, often in a humorous form or in a simpler and shorter form that makes the original meaning clearer
- Dispense - to give out things, especially products, services, or amounts of money
- Back - support
- Verdict - an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one made at the end of a trial
- Evolved - having developed through a gradual process
- Voice - to say what you think about a particular subject, especially to express a doubt, complaint, etc
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